Active Directory Senior Systems Administrator

CGI; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Senior Active Directory Systems Administrator in Montreal. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Active Directory management, including troubleshooting and consolidation activities. This role requires strong technical skills in Windows Server and PowerShell, as well as a background in project management. Additionally, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical certifications is required. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of infrastructure and Active Directory support experience.
• 2-4 years of experience in scripting with PowerShell.
• Proficient in managing and supporting Windows Server 2008/2012/2016.

Responsibilities

• Provide L3 support for Active Directory incident management.
• Administer and support file services and DFS.
• Create groups in Active Directory for project needs.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Consolidation activities

Customer-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical certifications

Tools

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Active Directory

PowerShell

Job description

Active Directory Senior Systems Administrator

Mission:

• Active Directory Services
• Active Directory troubleshooting of domains and provide L3 support for incident management.
• Active Directory consolidation & migration activities.
• Apply standard group security policies.
• Provide support to application teams for application integration.
• Define OR tree and delegations.
• Deliver package to create groups, service accounts, policies and delegation model.
• Ensure security level of new trusted AD forest.
• Set trust relationships.
• Help with users / resources / applications migration.

Data Management:

• Administer / Support file services and DFS.
• Manage CIFS shares and permissions, on multi-sites environment.
• Merge / Reorganization of Folders / Shares.
• Support infrastructure providing end users data in his / her workplace (DFS, Login Script, File Share Service).
• Review capacity planning (share occupancy and forecast)

Account Management:

• Provide support to application teams for management of their Accounts / Groups / Admin-Accounts in Active directory, using either standard Microsoft tools, homemade provisioning tools or external Identity Management solution.
• Create groups in Active Directory to support Projects / Needs.

Profile

Technical Skills:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2016.
• Microsoft Active Directory ◦DNS, NTP, DHCP, replication, trusts.
• Strong authentication.
• PKI Management.
• ADFS & Office365.
• Data Management (CIFS, ACL NTFS, DFS).
• Scripting (Visual Basic, Powershell)
• Azure (AD connect)

Competencies:

• Experience in troubleshooting.
• Experience in consolidation activities.
• Experience in working with stakeholders and other technical teams to collect business and technical requirements and desing AD integration with enterprise solutions.
• Basic understanding of Project Management.
• Architecture / design and implementation experience.
• Agile practices are a plus.
• Your client oriented, and you'd like to teach and explain in a simple way complex problematic.
• You are comfortable using communication tooling (like PowerPoint, digital tools, workshops.

Desired / Plus:

• ITIL
• Agile practices are a plus.

Experience Needed:

• Minimum 3-5 (Intermediate) infrastructure support.
• Minimum 3-5 (Intermediate) Active Directory infrastructure support.
• Minimum 2-4 Years' Scripting / PowerShell development.
• Minimum 2-4 Years' Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 installation and support.

Educational Requirements: Bachelors degree, DEC or equivalent technical Certifications.

Languages: Bilingual English / French a plus but not required.

Senior Active Directory Systems Administrator

Active Directory Services Missions:

• Troubleshoot Active Directory domains and provide L3 support for incident management.
• Active Directory consolidation and migration activities.
• Application of standard group security policies.
• Provide support to application teams for application integration.
• Define the OU tree structure and delegations.
• Deliver the package to create the groups, service accounts, policies, and the delegation model.
• Ensure the security level of the new trusted AD forest.
• Define relationships of trust.
• Assist in the migration of users / resources / applications.

Data Management:

• Administer / Support file services and DFS.
• Manage CIFS shares and permissions, on a multi-site environment.
• Merging / Reorganizing folders / shares.
• Support of the infrastructure providing data to end users at their workplace (DFS, Login Script, File Share Service).
• Review capacity planning (share occupancy and forecasts).

Account Management:

• Provide support to application teams for the management of their accounts / groups / administrator accounts in Active Directory, using either standard Microsoft tools, in-house provisioning tools or an external identity management solution.
• Create groups in Active Directory to support projects / needs.

Profile

Technical Skills:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2016.
• Microsoft Active Directory ◦DNS, NTP, DHCP, resplication, trusts.
• Strong authentication.
• PKI Management.
• ADFS & Office365.
• Data management (CIFS, ACL NTFS, DFS).
• Scripts (Visual Basic, Powershell).
• Azure (AD connect)

Skills:

• Experience in troubleshooting.
• Experience in consolidation activities.
• Experience in working with stakeholders and other technical teams to gather business and technical requirements and design AD integration with enterprise solutions.
• Elementary understanding of project management.
• Experience in architecture / design and implementation.
• Agile practices are more
• You are customer-oriented, and you like to teach and explain complex issues in a simple way.
• You are comfortable with communication tools (PowerPoint, digital tools, workshops),

Desirable / More:

• ITIL -Agile
• Practices are a plus.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 3-5 (Intermediate) infrastructure support.
• A minimum 3-5 (Intermediate) Active Directory infrastructure support.
• At least 2 to 4 years of script / PowerShell development.
• At least 2 to 4 years of installation and support of Windows Server 2008/2012/2016.

Education requirements: Bachelor's degree, DEC or equivalent technical certifications.

Languages: English / French bilingualism is an asset but is not compulsory.